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by jm4 18y ago
What a bummer. I was hoping for something new about Kindle and this article does little more than try to funnel readers into the registration-required Standard Prediction Market. Oh well. Move along; nothing to see here.
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by jm4 18y ago
These NYT articles requiring registration that have been popping up on here every day are getting annoying.
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by jm4 18y ago
This links directly to a video. Can you put [video] or something in the headline next time?
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by jm4 18y ago
That's pretty neat. Did anyone else see the doofus sitting several rows behind Obama wearing a Green Bay Packers hat? Geez... It's the presidential inauguration for crying out loud.
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by jm4 18y ago
You could say the same thing about the iPhone being locked to ATT. Personally, I consider ATT to be a deal breaker so I never gave any consideration to the iPhone. I really don't care how good of a phone it is. On the other hand, I have bee
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by jm4 18y ago
I understand the part where you said a wiki is a database. I guess it could fit some loose definition of a database. But what does that have to do with anything? The whole point of the article was the simplicity of the SQL schema. The link
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by jm4 18y ago
You could take a look at Aqua Data Studio or DB Visualizer. I haven't used DB Designer so I don't know how they compare, but DB Visualizer is a pretty nice tool and not too expensive.
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by jm4 18y ago
What does that have to do with an SQL database schema? And what's the significance of the link structure? It's not so dissimilar from other websites or the web itself. Sure, it would probably make for a cool looking graph, but it has no bea
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by jm4 18y ago
It could be effective on the ground around the runway where the birds hang out until a plane flies into them.
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by jm4 18y ago
I'd say it's a ways off considering how many years they've spent trying to shoot down much larger missiles with lasers. A missile moves much faster than a bird, but the small size of a bird is going to make it extremely difficult. There's a
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by jm4 18y ago
The gist of the article is this: 1) The author loves Amazon and eBay. 2) Amazon is the best at cataloging items and eBay is still trying to solve this problem with user-generated items. 3) eBay is the auction monster and Amazon has an inter
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by jm4 18y ago
I think it was a combination of things. If I remember correctly, AIM was an AOL subscription exclusive in the beginning so only the dopes on there were using it. The cool kids were on ICQ and I think there were very few AOL users willing or
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by jm4 18y ago
Have you seen Spring lately? I'm not sure it's much of an improvement. Stripes is nice as far as Java web frameworks go, but it's fairly simple and this is where the problem lies. Someone comes up with a tool that's great for a specific job
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by jm4 18y ago
Just because they've routed calls over the internet up until now doesn't mean this is the only way to do it. There are probably quite a few reasons for not using the data connection. A couple that come to mind are possible call quality issu
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by jm4 18y ago
I think it's kind of lame to have a site about education with some made up variation of the word 'education' as the name. It's fine to use a made up word with no meaning. It's fine to use a play on words. It's also ok to use some completely
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by jm4 18y ago
I'm guessing it's because without windows it would look like a tank too. I can think of at least a couple reasons why having the President rolling around in a tank isn't a good idea, and they obviously don't think it's a good idea either si
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by jm4 18y ago
I don't even know how to respond to that. What are you trying to say? That this should be some kind of inspiration to readers here? There's hope that one's startup can eventually go public if AFF can do it? A twelve-year-old casual sex meet
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by jm4 18y ago
Who cares? Seriously... Adult Friend Finder? Don't even give me some crap excuse about how it's relevant because they're a startup. These guys have been in business, ripping people off since '96. Someone submitted an RFC for an avian IP net
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by jm4 18y ago
This is informative. I had never heard of Rack before. It seems very similar to Python Paste. Neat. However, I don't see what this has to do with my original comment. It doesn't address any of the concerns I raised about the john_dahl's com
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by jm4 18y ago
That's a completely valid problem, but at best it's debatable whether it applies to Ruby web frameworks. There's not exactly a plethora of mature web frameworks available. Rails and Merb seemed to be the most firmly established frameworks w
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by jm4 18y ago
How can the Ruby community splinter between two competing web frameworks? The entire Ruby-using population does not need to agree on a web framework. There can be smaller communities around various projects and frameworks within the Ruby co
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by jm4 18y ago
Compiz and Beryl. Beryl forked from Compiz and, if I remember correctly, relations were very sour between the two projects. Several months later they merged into Compiz Fusion.
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by jm4 18y ago
Not necessarily. It's only easy to walk out because the majority of companies don't have their employees collectively share profits and losses. If they did, workers would walk out only to share the responsibility someplace else. I think the
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by jm4 18y ago
This is a duplicate of a post from a couple days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=406049
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by jm4 18y ago
Did you happen to notice the date on that RFC? It's an old April fools joke. I think I remember seeing it on Slashdot several years ago. Here are some test results showing that AvianIP is faster than ADSL: http://www.notes.co.il/benbasat/5
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by jm4 18y ago
Half the time there is a Perl article on here everyone is ripping it. How is it that so many people are interested in what version control software Perl 5 uses? I'm genuinely curious. It's odd that this thing got so many votes but my comm
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by jm4 18y ago
Here is another spam post from pakafka. This guy is in the habit of submitting every single one the stories he writes for the Wall Street Journal's tech news site. Like most of the others, it's a sensational headline on top of a baseless ar
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by jm4 18y ago
I've used both, and while I'm no fan of PHP I think it's absurd to even compare the two. Quite simply, JSP is an exercise in masochism. These days JSPs are only used for the view layer and most of the work is done in a servlet or a controll
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by jm4 18y ago
I'm so tired of users who routinely submit links to every single article they write- whether on topic or not- in order to generate ad revenue. Yesterday this user posted a link to some lame article about a cop punching a guy in the face. Ho
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by jm4 18y ago
Is TechCrunch a leading VC/Startup news source? I'm not trying to be a smartass. It always seemed like tabloid trash to me. The articles are poorly researched, poorly written and often consist of almost nothing of substance once you get bey

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